Week 8 Theory of Basic Emotions Flashcards
What are the basic emotions that proposed by Paul Ekman?
- Anger
-Fear - Disgust
- Sadness
- Surprise
- Happiness
What are the basic emotions proposed by Plutchick?
- Anger
- Fear
- Disgust
- Anticipation
- Joy
- Trust
- Sadness
Why are these basic emotions (sadness, Fear, Anger and happiness) distinguished and crossed over between the theories?
- Because over the ages these emotions are easily identified and they have an adaptive purpose, so they deal with big fundamental life tasks.
What is circumplex model?
Its understanding the shared characteristics between emotions
What do all basic emotions have in common?
All basic emotions have distinct facial expressions that indicate underlying neurophysiological processes.
These unique expressions provide social cues to others
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
Facial actions can independently influence our subjective emotional state.
What are the key differences between moods and emotions?
Moods, take minutes to hours/ lower threshold needed to trigger emotion/ regulation mostly unaffected/ no unique non-verbal expressions/ difficult to identify exact triggers causing moods.
Emotion: takes seconds to minutes/ more easily experienced within moods belonging to same family/ more difficult to regulate if experienced within mood/ universal facial expressions/ triggers more easily identifiable.
Fear
It’s one of the basic emotions that energise us to react to an imminent threat.
In-built survival circuit
It activates and drives behavioural responses to to various threats.
Phobias
Situation-specific and often intense and excessive fear response.
Anxiety
psychological and physiological arousal in response to an unknown, circumstantial or anticipated threat.
Appraisal Component
Subjective interpretation of underlying neurophysiological responses results in different behaviour.
Why do we fear social situations such as public speaking even though it is not a life-threatening situation?
Most psychologists agree that due to not being threatened by wild animals and natural disasters, and because our fear circuits are built-in and need to activate, it therefore encourages it to activate in different social contexts.
When does anxiety become bad?
When the person is always in a chronic arousal state in response to a stimulus that does not threat their survival.
Anger
It energises behaviour to deal with threats, potentially an adaptive form of defensive/protective behaviour.
